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If I included non-Pixar animated features which have come out since Toy Story (1995) my list would look like this.
I'm guessing Nightmare Before Xmas was before that? Also, no Corpse Bride?
the genius comic duo of Patrick Warburton and Eartha Kitt
Can't argue with this. That film also had some of the most hilarious nonplussed reaction shots since The Grinch and Daffy Duck (IOW, since Chuck Jones).
You've never seen Monsters, Inc?? But it's wonderful! Just for the big set piece at the end with all the doors ALONE it's worth seeing.
I love The Incredibles in spite of the Randism. The production design, the characters, the pacing, Edna Mode, all pitch perfect. It's like what a Connery-era Bond film ought to have looked like.
eta: And I think that Bird wasn't overtly trying to be political; I read the film as Bird's (over) reaction to being screwed over by the bean-counters at Warner.
(And anyone who doesn't put Finding Nemo at the top of their Pixar lists is either (a) crazy with wrongness or (b) has already seen WALL-E and must therefore be shunned. I mean, REALLY.)
Mine (I think, for right this minute) (eta: omnibus list, not just Pixar, obviously):
Lilo and Stitch
Spirited Away
Chicken Run
The Iron Giant
Howl's Moving Castle
Triplets of Belleville
The Incredibles
Toy Story 2
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the WereRabbit
The Emperor's New Groove
The Corpse Bride
A Bug's Life
Toy Story (would be rated higher, but killed by 9 billion repeated viewings for every kidsitting expedition between its date of release and 2004, when I retired from sitting for children not related to me)
Ice Age & Ice Age 2(big drop here)
Madagascar (another big drop)
Cars (just below Madagascar -- had it been a period my-summer-in-Europe romantic comedy about a Harley and a flock of Vespa scooters, it'd be much higher on my list)
Have not seen:
Kung Fu Panda
James and the Giant Peach
Finding Nemo
Monsters, Inc.
Ratatouille
Incredibles/Monsters, Inc tied for first
A Bug's Life
Toy Story 2
Toy Story
Cars.
I have not seen Finding Nemo all the way through despite owning it and Emeline knowing it by heart.
Then again, I love animated films and I make it a point to not look for nefarious messages hidden or to ignore the blatant one because it truly detracts from my personal enjoyment of the flick.
the genius comic duo of Patrick Warburton and Eartha Kitt
Hells to the yeah. I love Emperor's New Groove for this alone.
You've never seen Monsters, Inc?? But it's wonderful! Just for the big set piece at the end with all the doors ALONE it's worth seeing.
I know. I need to remedy this.
I think it would be this:
Finding Nemo
Toy Story 2
Toy Story
Ratatouille
The Incredibles
Cars
A Bug's Life
Monsters, Inc.
The setting of Ratatouille leads me to place it higher than I probably would otherwise.
I don't think I've seen a lot of non-Pixar.
Emperor's New Groove is made of win.
("Why do we even have that [object]??" being a MoonBone household catchphrase do this day.)